It’s becoming ironic to write about Ottawa’s young players on a weekly basis. While the CHLers and their respective clubs are excelling, Ottawa (15 points out) and Belleville (10 points out) are struggling mightily. There’s some hope — Chlapik, White, and Gagne are putting up respectable numbers and Thomas Chabot is proving himself to be a capable NHL player — but also reason to be concerned. The young players, a group who you’d expect to see a bump in minutes and opportunity when teams are “out of it”, haven’t been receiving that relative to our expectations.
Case in point: although Belleville went 1-1 over the weekend, Danny Taylor started both games of a back-to-back.